describes
Dictionary entries
- Entry →describo, describere, descripsi, descriptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
describe/draw, mark/trace out; copy/transcribe/write; establish (law/right)
sg. fut. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...videri; omnia ista humanae vitae formidines putat. Describe captivitatem, verbera, catenas, egestatem et membrorum lacerationes vel per morbum..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: tu regere imperio populos, Romane..."